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Post Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:47 pm

He admired my car and told me that I should take the rubber grommet off the bottom of the accelerator pedal to make it go faster. What was he on about!?
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Post Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:52 pm

:roll:

Try this experiment, take the intake boot off to the throttle body, get a mate to step on the throttle ( car doesn't have to be running to do this ) and see if how far the TB butterfly opens up.

Then decide if you need to remove the throttle stop
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Post Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:52 pm

You're looking at about a 10hp gain.
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:04 am

Was his name Wallace, by any chance?
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:42 am

you can also add about 10bhp by giving it a wash
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e30topless said : Proper BMW's have 4 headlights, last of the run was the E30 and E34/E32 anything after that is just complete shite
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:47 am

Seriously, I got 10bhp when I fixed the WOT throttle function of the TPS!
I said:

Can anyone suggest how to test if the boot lights are staying on with the boot shut?

e30topless said:

lock the wife in there
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:23 am

Dont forget to fold the rear seats down
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:40 am

DanThe wrote:Dont forget to fold the rear seats down
What you want to do is rust the whole car into a stance sport lightweight, that's worth about 10p
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:46 am

DanThe wrote:Dont forget to fold the rear seats down
This
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Sold: 1986 E30 325i Cabriolet, Alpine White :(
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:42 pm

:mad: I emptied the ashtray, that gave a boost. :mad:
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:14 pm

rumour has it that if you put the sun visors down it knocks off 2secs from the 0-60 time. But only on the 320i & 325i non sport models
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:18 pm

I heard fitting a new flux capacitor release valve does wonders to an old m20! winkeye
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:21 pm

I haven't got a rubber grommet behind mine.
Got a kick-down switch instead. I have a sneaking suspicion that removing that might just make it even slower... :(
Schadenfreude - the German's haven't got a word for that.
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:38 pm

The advice given to the OP isn't necessarily without foundation. I cured my 18 year old's 'faulty clutch' yesterday by removing the doubled up floor mat from under the pedal, and if the throttle cable isn't adjusted properly, and is slack, a bit more pedal movement might just open the throttle a little more.
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Post Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:07 pm

Fucking hell Brian :D

Hardly the right thing to do, im amazed you in a round about way suggest it. The fact here is with a correctly set up throttle cable removing the stop will gain nothing

I've several cars loose power from a slack throttle cable, even as much as 30hp on an m635csi
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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:06 am

I got my ears pinned...
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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:13 am

G-Bear wrote:I got my ears pinned...
The above only works in a cabriolet!
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